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Be sure to check out Education 2 Practice, the statewide interprofessional education initiative!

We are building upon the infrastructure of the M-SEARCH program, in order to enhance the clinical experience by integrating collaborative learning into rotations.

Education2Practice Education2Practice (E2P) is a statewide initiative encouraging health educators and professionals to work together to increase the number of high-functioning health care teams capable of caring for the whole patient.

Several of the M-SEARCH partners and participants are in the news!

Wayne State University College Of Nursing, State Partner To Cut Obesity - CBS Detroit The Wayne State University College of Nursing is part of a $1.5 million grant awarded to the Michigan Department of Community Health by the United States Health Resources and Services Administration to develop an Advanced Practice Nurse Leader primary care model for overweight and obese patients.

This would be interesting to attend!

Oct. 4 workshop to examine future of rural health care Population trends in coming decades will put huge demands on the health care industry—even more so in the rural regions of the state where there are health care workforce shortages.

A community health center is getting involved in the election process.

Utica Community Health Center to sponsor voter registration drive Utica Community Health Center will sponsor a Voter Registration Drive in connection with National Voter’s Registration Day, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 25, at 1651 Oneida St., in Utica.

More information on hospital consolidation.

Rural Minnesota retools health care in hospital mergers Rural Minnesota retools health care in hospital mergers - The Post-Bulletin is Rochester and South East, Minnesota's number one local news, sports, weather, entertainment and business source.

Nice profile on a rural hospital in Minnesota, and how it is maintaining its independence.

Trying to go it alone in rural healthcare In an environment that increasingly rewards mergers, some hospitals and doctors are taking steps to maintain their independence.

This is interesting! What's your opinion on this subject?

Nurses group rips AAFP on medical-home leadership | Healthcare business news, research and events. Nurses group rips AAFP on medical-home leadership | Healthcare business news, research and events from Modern Healthcare

Michigan is now the fifth fattest state in the US.

Michigan is 5th-fattest state in U.S., which bodes ill for health expenses The numbers on Michigan's bathroom scales continue to spin upward -- setting up Michiganders for an explosion of diseases related to obesity and possibly costing the state more than $22 billion in additional health care by 2030, according to a new report.

A rural health network in Missouri will be explaining the ACA to area residents.

Northeast Missouri Rural Health Network is helping others to understand health care plan The Northeast Missouri Rural Health Network is coordinating presentations this Tuesday on the impact of the Affordable Care Act on Missouri.

Nice article on an aspiring rural doctor.

Doctor in training eyes return to rural roots BALDWIN CITY — A Baker University student who grew up in Wamego is the first student from the school to be accepted into The University of Kansas School of Medicine’s Scholars in Rural Health program, designed to identify and encourage undergraduate students from rural Kansas who are interested in b...

This is an eye-opener.

Rural US More Likely to Be Obese Country dwellers are one-fifth more likely to be obese, a new study says.

A "Community Paramedic," huh?

Minnesota: 'Community paramedics' help with rural health care - TwinCities.com Minnesota is pushing to train a few hundred "community paramedics," a new kind of health care provider intended to make up for the lack of doctors and nurses in rural areas.